Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar is a research professor of Islamic Studies at the
Department of Religious Studies. He has been at Duke since 2009. His
primary interests span both classical and modern Islamic thought. His
work is at the intersections of “Islamic Studies”, and the contemporary
“History of Thought.”
Kadivar’s research and teachings (undergrad
and grad) include Qur’anic Studies, and the Tradition of the Prophet;
Islamic mysticism (Sufism) and Islamic ethics; Islamic philosophy and
comparative medieval philosophy; Islamic theology (kalam), and comparative religious studies; Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), and the principles of Islamic jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh);
Islam and politics, Islam and modernity, Islam and human rights,
and Islam and Feminism; philosophy of religion, Islam and the meaning of
life, the problem of evil, and religion and science; and History of
Muslims in colonial and post-colonial eras.
Kadivar is an international public intellectual. The author of thirty books and dozens of scholarly articles in Persian, some of his books and articles have been translated into English, Arabic, and German, and a few of his articles have been translated into French, Turkish, Indonesian, Bosnian, and Kurdish.
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